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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 599497, member: 13650&quot;]Nothing.&nbsp; And people do it.&nbsp; But normally to an educated collector, they look bad.&nbsp; You can usually, easily tell the fake from the NT&#039;d ones after you look at a lot of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there are always some that fall in the middle, in the gray area where you really don&#039;t know.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The major grading companies will not slab a coin that has questionable toning.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it falls in the gray area, it may or may not get slabbed.&nbsp; But there&#039;s a lot of artificially toned coins that look really bad out there.&nbsp; Some people don&#039;t know the difference and pay the huge premium for a ruined, common coin.&nbsp; If it&#039;s in a slab, you can be 99% sure it&#039;s natural.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of the crescent toned or bag toned coins look the same, with the crescent covering varying amounts of coins and in different locations.&nbsp; Some coins such as toned Morgans are much more common.&nbsp; Where as something like a Franklin half to a Peace dollar, are rarely found with natural toning.&nbsp; Real examples going for big money of course.&nbsp; Toned examples are rare for most coins.&nbsp; Morgan dollars spent a lot of time sitting in canvas bags at the mints.&nbsp; They made way too many and they did not circulate well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some sat for many decades without moving, which resulted in a lot of toned examples.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There&#039;s a lot of coins on ebay that have fake blue toning around the edges, on fronts and backs.&nbsp; (Supposed to be &#039;album&#039; toning.)&nbsp; This is very common and I almost bought a bad one at a coin show last year before I knew any better.&nbsp; Luckily, the dealer was greedy and wouldn&#039;t negotiate so he took it home.&nbsp; Anything that looks totally bright and wild like you&#039;ve never seen before has a pretty good chance of being fake.&nbsp; And usually both sides of a coin don&#039;t exhibit the same exact toning pattern or colors.&nbsp;&nbsp; It would seem that most of the time, one side has no toning at all, while the other was exposed to something.&nbsp; &nbsp; But this is not the rule.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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